Qu'est-ce qu'un conte ? Bruno Bettelheim, psychiatre d'enfants, y voit un rite de passage entre l'univers de l'enfance et le monde des parents. L'intérêt que les enfants portent à ces récits, les affects qu'ils éprouvent à leur lecture, prouvent que ces histoires sont pour eux affaire sérieuse. Le conte aide les enfants à donner du sens à leur vie : il formule à sa façon ce qui, du monde des adultes, leur échappe et les intriguent. La simplicité des situations et des personnages (bon/méchant, enfant/parent, héros/ennemi...) offre à l'imaginaire infantile des repères faciles pour reproduire, à quelques simplifications près, des pensées ou des sentiments qui ont été réprimés dans la vie réelle. Bettelheim retrouve dans le matériel des contes de fées les grands thèmes analytiques : "Les trois petits cochons" mettent en scène l'opposition entre le principe de plaisir et le principe de réalité ; Blanche-Neige se rattache aux conflits oedipiens ; La Gardienne d'oies, rapporté à l'interdit de l'inceste, indique la voie vers l'autonomie, etc. Des analyses qui vous feront relire autrement les contes de votre enfance !

Neil Josten is the newest addition to the Palmetto State University Exy team. He's short, he's fast, he's got a ton of potential—and he's the runaway son of the murderous crime lord known as The Butcher. Signing a contract with the PSU Foxes is the last thing a guy like Neil should do. The team is high profile and he doesn't need sports crews broadcasting pictures of his face around the nation. His lies will hold up only so long under this kind of scrutiny and the truth will get him killed. But Neil's not the only one with secrets on the team. One of Neil's new teammates is a friend from his old life, and Neil can't walk away from him a second time. Neil has survived the last eight years by running. Maybe he's finally found someone and something worth fighting for.

An unwanted child becomes a man with a great destiny in this danmei/Boys’ Love novel from acclaimed author Arise Zhang, also known as Fei Tian Ye Xiang (非天夜翔)!All his life, Duan Ling has been an unwanted child. Abandoned as an infant, he has grown up scrabbling for scraps in the dirt, beaten and abused by his adoptive family. Yet everything changes the day a stranger arrives at the Duan estate, claiming to have been sent by Duan Ling’s father.Duan Ling finds himself following the mysterious Lang Junxia into a dangerous world of power and politics far beyond his childish understanding. All he knows is that Lang Junxia never lies, and that he has promised Duan Ling’s father will someday come for him. On that day, Duan Liang must be prepared for a destiny far greater than he knows—one that will shake the world.